Bombs tore through the Ritz Carlton and JW Marriott hotels in Jakarta, killing eight people and injuring at least 51 others in Indonesia’s first terrorist attack in almost four years. Two blasts at about 7:45 a.m. local time rocked the hotels in an up-market shopping and business district, killing eight people, ripping the façade off the Ritz, blowing out windows and showering the street with glass and debris. The dead included the New Zealand-born president of cement maker PT Holcim Indonesia.

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